Vidya Games Thread

[RestlessRain]

The madmen did it, they made crack more addictive.



There's a shitload of quality-of-life fixes and general improvements here. Glad they're still tweaking the game.

 

[God's Strongest Dragoon]

The madmen did it, they made crack more addictive.
There's a shitload of quality-of-life fixes and general improvements here. Glad they're still tweaking the game.

Added a new passive "Mercy Hit". Pals with this passive cannot reduce enemy HP below 1 when attacking.

New item "Ring of Mercy" has been added. When wearing this ring, you cannot reduce enemy HP below 1 when attacking.

New armour "Multiclimate Undershirt" has been added. Protect yourself against both the heat and the cold with just one slot!

New building "Ore Mining Site" has been added. This mining site allows you to produce ores from the comfort of your base!

・Kelpsea can now produce Pal Fluids at the ranch
・Dumud can now produce High-Quality Pal Oil at the ranch

・Building and building piece placement rules have been relaxed

Holy fuck, you weren't joking about QoL, that's so much more convenient.

 

[I Wanna Die]

The madmen did it, they made crack more addictive.



There's a shitload of quality-of-life fixes and general improvements here. Glad they're still tweaking the game.

My ~100 hour save got corrupted. This makes me wanna hop back in the game but at the same time I think I'd rather wait until a few more substantial updates so I'm not doing 90% of the same thing over again.

 

[yuckyyaki]

The madmen did it, they made crack more addictive.



There's a shitload of quality-of-life fixes and general improvements here. Glad they're still tweaking the game.

I've never understood the appeal of these raid boss/events. Why would you spend ages watching a bar or number going down, instead of up?

 

[RestlessRain]

I've never understood the appeal of these raid boss/events. Why would you spend ages watching a bar or number going down, instead of up?

I don't know how long the raid boss in Palworld takes to defeat, but for a well-designed raid, the reward would be knowing your strategy, teamwork and skill helped you achieving a goal you set out to accomplish, and perhaps encouraging you to make online connections with other people playing the same game.

 

[thhrang]

Nintentoddlers are about to get fucked just like the rest of us.

 

[agility_]

Looking forward to Peach being made fatter and uglier.

 

[God's Strongest Dragoon]

Weekly Famitsu Sales (3/25/24 - 3/31/24)

1. [NSW] Princess Peach: Showtime! (Nintendo, 03/22/24) – 27,258 (104,820)
2. [PS5] Rise of the Ronin (SIE, 03/22/24) – 20,139 (84,785)
3. [NSW] Winning Post 10 2024 (Koei Tecmo, 03/28/24) – 12,845 (New)
4. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 10,432 (5,768,608)
5. [PS5] Dragon’s Dogma II (Capcom, 03/22/24) – 9,172 (77,764)
6. [NSW] Super Mario Bros. Wonder (Nintendo, 10/20/23) – 8,163 (1,803,747)
7. [PS5] Winning Post 10 2024 (Koei Tecmo, 03/28/24) – 6,733 (New)
8. [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 6,618 (3,483,557)
9. [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo, 03/20/20) – 6,411 (7,729,183)
10. [NSW] Splatoon 3 (Nintendo, 09/09/22) – 6,172 (4,264,330)
11. [NSW] Mario vs. Donkey Kong (Nintendo, 02/16/24) – 5,941 (137,369)
12. [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu World: Chikyuu wa Kibou de Mawatteru! (Konami, 11/16/23) – 5,289 (1,023,124)
13. [PS5] Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (Square Enix, 02/29/24) – 4,840 (310,596)
14. [NSW] Nintendo Switch Sports (Nintendo, 04/29/22) – 4,802 (1,299,683)
15. [PS4] Winning Post 10 2024 (Koei Tecmo, 03/28/24) – 4,702 (New)

FF7 Rebirth sales have dropped another 32% this week, down from 7,121 units to 4,840 units, for a total of 310,596 units. They're still 25,431 units away from passing FF16's first week of sales of 336,027. As the game released on February 29th, two month mark is 4 weeks away with the 4/22/24-4/28/24. They would need to sell 6,357 units for the next 4 weeks, which is a 31% increase from what their current weekly sales is. It is getting outsold by Splatoon 3 (a game that came out 2 years ago) and Animal Crossing (which came out 4 years ago). The sales for those 2 games are basically a measurement for Japan's birth rate at this point and FF7 Rebirth is falling below them.

Meanwhile Dragon's Dogma 2 and Rise of the Ronin both came out on the same day last week with DD2 having a higher week 1 sales of 68,592 to RoR's 64,646. However for the past week, DD2 saw a significantly higher drop in week 2 sales with 9,172 units to RoR's 20,139 units.

Oh, and the Princess Peach game is still beating everything for the second week in a row with 27,258 units for a total of 104,820 units. And yes, that means Peach, DD2, and RoR all released during the same week and Peach has been crushing both of them.

The PS2 holds the record for 155 million units sold in its lifetime and the Switch has a lifetime record of 139.36 million units as of December 31st, 2023. To close that 15,640,000 unit gap during this year, the Switch will need to sell ~300k units per week for 2024. This Switch has been selling around 60k units in only Japan each week. Considering worldwide sales likely covers that 240k unit gap and there's likely going to be a few months in 2025 before the Switch 2/Super Switch comes out, the Switch is looking like it's going to break the record. That's even ignoring that they'll likely still sell Switch consoles for a while when the next console comes out.

 

[That Chuuba Enjoyer]

Relic Entertainment lays off employees to give itself 'the best possible chance to survive in an increasingly volatile industry'

Word of the layoffs comes just one week after Sega cut Relic loose.

www.pcgamer.com

Company of heroes 3 really was a big failure for them. Wonder how much Relic paid to be sold off from sega, instead of sega shutting the studio down.

 

[UberSoldat]

Relic Entertainment lays off employees to give itself 'the best possible chance to survive in an increasingly volatile industry'

Word of the layoffs comes just one week after Sega cut Relic loose.

www.pcgamer.com

Company of heroes 3 really was a big failure for them. Wonder how much Relic paid to be sold off from sega, instead of sega shutting the studio down.

Relic died a long time ago for me, this is just a walking corpse. I don't see them surviving another year or two.

 

[UberSoldat]

New Mandalore

 

[ValkyrieAce]

How Hidden Nazi Symbols Were the Tip of a Toxic Iceberg at Life Is Strange Developer Deck Nine - IGN

According to over a dozen current and former employees, Life Is Strange developer Deck Nine’s management has long let a toxic work culture fester at the studio, including protecting multiple abusive leaders, encouraging crunch, and allowing bullying of individuals advocating internally for more...

www.ign.com

Rainbow haired letter people btfo

 

[Saturnus]

Nintentoddlers are about to get fucked just like the rest of us.

Nintendo has been fucking up in this dept for a while now (see: Treehouse) nothing really changes tbh.

 

[MrProcessor]

11 hours and 30 minutes.

She must really be enjoying this game.

 

[ValkyrieAce]

11 hours and 30 minutes.

She must really be enjoying this game.

You missed the other half. Make that almost 24 hours.

 

[God's Strongest Dragoon]

Automatons have been wiped out.

So we going to see a large-scale invasion coming from uncharted space or another faction pop up (Illuminate/Cyborgs)?

 

[46gumi]

The timeline fucking corrected itself in real time. This man can't catch a break.

 

[Stunned But Dumb]

The timeline fucking corrected itself in real time. This man can't catch a break.

That man is forever cursed

 

[Awoogers]

That man is forever cursed

"is that the parry of 37?!"

 

[That Chuuba Enjoyer]

Heads up rpg nerds! Unicorn Overlord is 40 bucks right now for all platforms. Planning on getting it with this deal!

Unicorn Overlord just came out, but you can already save $20

Vanillaware and Atlus’ latest treasure gets its first major discount

www.polygon.com